Shame lyrics

Robbie Williams:

Well there’s three versions of this story

Mine and yours and then the truth

Gary Barlow:

Now we can put it down to circumstance

our childhood, then our youth

Robbie Williams:

Out of some sentimental gain

I wanted you to feel my pain

but it came back return to sender

Gary Barlow:

I read your mind and tried to call

my tears could fill the Albert Hall

Is this the sound of sweet surrender?

Both:

What a shame we never listened

I told you through the television

And all that went away was the price we pay

People spend a lifetime this way

Oh what a shame

Robbie Williams:

So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus

Gary Barlow:

Oh! And with your poster 30ft

high at the back of Toys-R-Us

Robbie Williams:

I wrote a letter in my mind

but the words were so unkind

About a man I can’t remember

Gary Barlow:

I don’t recall the reasons why

I must have meant them at the time

Is this the sound of sweet surrender?

Both:

What a shame we never listened

I told you through the television

And all that went away was the price we pay

People spend a lifetime this way

Oh what a shame

Words come easy, when they’re true

Words come easy, when they’re true

So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus,

And with your poster 30ft high at the back of Toys-R-Us

Now we can put it down to circumstance

our childhood, then our youth

What a shame we never listened

I told you through the television

And all that went away was the price we pay

People spend a lifetime this way

And that’s how they stay

People spend a lifetime this way

Oh what a shame

What a shame

Ooooo, oooh, ohhh

Such a shame, what a shame

pitiful shame, real shame, and

stuff, proper shame, shame shame